Click here to read the Atari 7800 Xenophobe manual.Xenos. The very name strikes fear into every colonist's heart. A distress call is received from space stations orbiting your homeworld, then silence. A single ship escapes, piloted by a battered man who tells the tale of pods that hatch into acid-spitting Xenos. A small band of engineers has been dispatched to combat the Xeno threat before it takes over all the space stations and, eventually, your homeworld. Originally an arcade game, Xenophobe is a side-scrolling shooter with platform elements. Assemble your band of engineers and fight the Xenos on each station, striving to either clear it or abandon it. You start out with a standard issue laser, but can pick up additional weapons as you find them, including Phasers, Lightning Rifles, Poofer guns, and bombs.
The Atari 7800 can have two joystick controllers attached. Use the ARROW KEYS (up, down, left, right) to move, the CONTROL key for button 1 (usually fire), and the ALT/OPTION key for button 2. Pressing I will select, and O will pause.